Car-fender.



No. 798,911. PATENTED SEPT. 5, 1905. P. LUTHER.

GAR FENDER.

APPLICATION rmsn MAY12,1905.

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PAUL LUTHER, OF ALLEGHENY, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE HALF TO JOHN F. FOX, OF GREENSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

CAR-FENDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 5, 1905.

Application filed May 12,1905. Serial No. 260,089.

Be it known that 1, PAUL LUTHER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Allegheny, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Fenders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in car-fenders, and is particularly designed to automatically tilt back when an object falls therein.

The primary object of my invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive fender and one in which there will be no possible means of throwing a person under the car when struck, but by the arrangement I use and being accurately balanced will have a tendency to raise the object and deposit the same into the fender instead of forcing it down and under the car.

For the attainment of these objects and for such other purposes as may hereinafter appear my invention consists, in brief, in certain details of construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, the novel features of which will be fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claims. I In the drawings forming part of the specification, Figure l is a side view of my improved fender as applied to a car. Fig. 2 is a front View thereof.

Referring by numerals to the drawings, 3 represents the platform of a car, and fastened to the sill of same is a framework at of suitable design for the support of the fender 5.

The fender in side view is semicircular, with the projecting end 6 in its normal position near the surface of the track. The side braces 7 are pivoted, as at 8, to the frame I, as the object is to have the front of the fender somewhat heavier than the back, so as to hold the projecting end 6 down, as illustrated in the drawings, and to accomplish this I secure weights 9 of the desired weight to the front thereof. The hooks 10 on the frame A limit the forward movement of the fender, and when the same falls back, as illustrated in dotted lines, I also provide stops l1 and 19., which are integral with the frame A. The projecting end 6 is covered with some flexible material to prevent injury, and the car-fender frame is wrapped with wire mesh or other suitable material.

The operation of my improved car-fender is as follows: The fender is held in a tilted position by the counterbalanced weights, and when an object is struck the forward end will tilt upward, thereby having a tendency to raise the object, and on the descent will drop into the fender, which will then assume the position as shown in dotted lines.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination, a frame projecting from a car, a fender pivoted to the frame at the outer end of the frame, said fender projecting beyond the end of the frame, and weights carried by the fender, said weights being secured to the outer end of the fender beyond its pivot.

2. In combination, a frame projecting from a car, a fender pivoted to the frame at the outer end of the frame, said fender projecting beyond the end of the frame, and weights carried by the fender, said weights being secured to the outer end of the fender beyond its pivot, and means carried by the frame for limiting the movement of the fender on its pivot in both directions.

3. In combination, a frame projecting from a car, a fender pivoted to the frame at the outer end of the frame, said fender projecting beyond the end of the frame, weights carried by the fender, said weights being secured to the outer end of the fender beyond its pivot, hooks carried by the frame to engage the fender to limit its movement in one direction.

-I. In combination, a frame, projecting from a car, a fender pivoted to the frame at the outer end of the frame, said fender projecting beyond the end of the frame, weights carried by the fender, said weights being secured to the outer end of the fender beyond its pivot, hooks carried by the frame to engage the fender to limit its upward movement.

5. In combination, a frame, projecting from a car, a fender pivoted to the frame at the outer end of the frame, said fender projecting beyond the end of the frame, weights carried by the fender, said weights being secured to the outer end of the fender beyond its pivot,

hooks carried by the frame to engage the fender to limit its downward movement.

6. In combination aframe, projecting from a car, a fender pivoted to the frame at the outer end of the frame, said fender projecting beyond the end of the frame, weights carried by the fender, said weights being secured to the outer end of the fender beyond its pivot, i and a cross-piece carried by the frame to furhooks carried by the frame to engage the fenther limit the movement of the fender in one der to limit its movement in either direction. direction.

7. In combination, a frame projecting from In testimony whereoflaffix my signature, in 5 5 a car, a fender pivoted to the frame at the l the presence of two Witnesses, this 29th day of outer end of the frame, said fender projecting April, 1905. beyond the end of the frame, Weights carried by the fender, said Weights being secured to i the outer end of the fender beyond its pivot,

PAUL LUTHER.

Witnesses:

I hooks carried by the frame to engage the fen- 1 JOHN NOLAND,

I J. P. APPLEMAN,

der to limit its movement in one direction, 

